At this hour, German electricity comes in at 420 g CO2/kwh; France 101 g CO2/kwh overall and...

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6. Oh goody. Percent talk from a five minute interval. You know, if one gives a shit, one can...

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...download CAISO data going for weeks on end and actually calculate the capacity utilization of all that shit that will be landfill in 25 years, the number of 5 minute periods that the single nuclear reactor at Diablo Canyon was producing on a 12 acre footprint more electricity than well over thousands of square miles of former wilderness converted into industrial parks for wind turbines.

For 19 years here I've heard people prattle about some tiny subset of a week long period, but for periods of weeks, I've built spreadsheets of the "renewable will save us" shithole California.

In expectation of this very, very, very, very, very selective attention, I took the liberty of downloading weeks of data as *.csv files, converting them to excel files for calculation purposes from the CAISO website which is found here: CAISO Supply Page

I do this to confront the appalling ignorance of people who want to pretend that a five minute period is representative.

I make especially sure to download data at both equinoxes and both solstices.

Here's the tailing data of a 24 hour period of five minute increments on the winter solstice a few weeks ago for all energy sources in California during that period:



The graphic of the so called "renewable energy output for the full 24 hour period:



At no point, zero times, did thousands of square miles of wilderness trashed to make industrial parks for wind turbines produce as much electricity as the Diablo Canyon plant produced on a 12 acre footprint.

Zero. None.

Now, of course our bourgeois brats with big batteries in their McMansions with Teslas in the garage and tens of thousands of subsidized solar cells on the roofs probably would be perfectly content to let service workers living with four or five people in a one room studio apartment in Cudahy California lay in the dark until the wind started blowing again, but for everyone who gives a shit about the future of humanity and, um, climate change this is an obvious obscenity.

I have many of these spreadsheets. For example, I have one covering the period between midnight on September 6, 2021 through September 13, 2021 covering 2304 five minute periods over 8 full days. The number of five minute periods that Diablo Canyon was producing on a 12 acre footprint more electricity than all of the wind garbage strewn all over thousands of square miles of trashed industrialized wilderness was, in that period, 1,555, or in "percent talk" that liars use to misrepresent the so called "renewable energy" victory, for 67.49% of the time, all the wind turbines in the entire State of California were unable to produce as much electricity as Diablo Canyon.

Here's the high, low, average, and standard deviation for that 8 day period, the units being MW:



Except for tiny in state coal capacity - with coal buried in "imports" - the most reliable form of energy in that State, as reflected by the standard deviation was the nuclear plant at Diablo Canyon.

And what is the plan of California? To restore the wilderness that will be littered with abandoned wind turbines in 25 years? No, it's to close Diablo Canyon and work for the further destruction of the planetary atmosphere.

And why are such ignorant things being done with the atmosphere racing toward more than 422 ppm concentrations of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide in the planetary atmosphere that will coming April or May?

Because people lie and misrepresent a failure as a success, the failure being so called "renewable energy," which doesn't produce much energy and isn't, in fact, close to being renewable or sustainable.

It appears that there are people here who think I'm stupid and uninformed and that I don't give a shit. One doesn't study the CAISO and Electricity map data if one is either.

Speaking of Electricity Map Data, that shithole coal dependent country Germany has a carbon intensity as of this writing 8:29 PM EST US 01/18/22 of 439 g CO2/kwh, compared to 113 g CO2/kwh for France.

Have a nice evening.